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To:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Subject: Re: batch-command wishlist [was: [TOPIC 02/12] Libification Goals
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I know that you asked for a persistent process, but just for reference,
> you can hackily access approxidate with:
> 
>   git config --type=expiry-date --default='15 days ago' does.not.exist

--type is too new (trying to support 1.8.x :<).  But yeah, using
`git rev-parse --since=15.days.ago` and extracting the integers